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Sunday’s Food for Thoughts : Learning from History
26 April 20094 Comments
Some thoughts for today, as shared by Rev. Stephen Tong.
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The greatest teaching in history about mankind is that mankind does not accept the teachings of history (read : man keeps on repeating the same mistakes again and again throughout history)
But, one who learns from history – although he himself may not have experienced its mistakes – will advance further in life and will learn more about life.
Because history is like the greatest professor that teaches mankind about life.
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The question is, do WE learn from history?
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Sandra :
Thanks for sharing! Yes I agree how most people tend to not think much about what’s happened in the past and learn from it …
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Hann’s Mummy :
I’ve been blessed to have learned a lot about life in general, and most importantly about God’s Word from Rev. Tong over the past 10 years that I’ve been in Singapore.
He preaches in Indonesian at our church every Sunday at 5pm (True Way Presbyterian Church, next to Queenstown MRT station) and straight after, 7.30pm, at Newton Life Church (in Mandarin, translated to English).
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Valencia :
BIG thanks for the additional info on the quote (been trying to find out about it!)
Here’s another one of Hegel’s quote which I (just found) and like:
“We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest”.
it was quoted from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
“What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it”
ga tau juga kalo ini kutipan lengkapny apa bukan, cma kopi jg dari t4 lain =)
i love stephen tong!
hmmm… i find that history teaches me that humans will always be humans – going their own way till they hit the wall – humans are very much caught up in the moment so in that moment it is difficult to have hindsight from history.
But having said that, yes i do learn from my own past – not sure how that society is doing much of such.